Oh, Well: Zillow Removes Climate (scam) Info From Listings

Of course, was anyone actually seeing them? That scam info was usually way down the page, so, it was mostly unhinged Warmists looking at the “data”

Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales

Zillow, the US’s largest real estate listing site, has removed a feature that allowed people to view a property’s exposure to the climate crisis, following complaints from the industry and some homeowners that it was hurting sales.

In September last year, the online real estate marketplace introduced a tool showing the individual risk of wildfire, flood, extreme heat, wind and poor air quality for one million properties it lists, explaining that “climate risks are now a critical factor in home-buying decisions” for many Americans.

If you’re looking to move somewhere, you should probably have an idea of those things to start with, not needing a real estate site for it. Poor air quality is not a “climate risk”, but, mostly a Democrat run city issue

But Zillow has now deleted this climate index in the wake of complaints from real estate agents and some homeowners that the rankings appeared arbitrary, could not be challenged and harmed house sales. The complaints included those from the California Regional Multiple Listing Service, which oversees a database of property data that Zillow relies upon.

Zillow said it remains committed to help Americans make informed decisions about properties, with listings now containing outbound links to the website of First Street, the nonprofit climate risk quantifier that had provided the on-site tool to Zillow.

Yeah, I’ve mentioned them before, and they are utterly unhinged climate cultists. Unsurprisingly, they want you to subscribe to actually get the information, looks like $37 a month.

Matthew Eby, founder and chief executive of First Street, said that removing the climate risk information means that many buyers will be “flying blind” in an era when worsening impacts of extreme weather are warping the real estate market in the US.

“The risk doesn’t go away; it just moves from a pre-purchase decision into a post-purchase liability,” Eby said. “Families discover after a flood that they should have purchased flood insurance, or discover after the sale that wildfire insurance is unaffordable or unavailable in their area.

It’s almost like information is not available. I easily knew back in 2009 that hurricanes and tornadoes could happen. It’s Raleigh. I knew the humidity would be higher being so close to the river. I knew it gets hot. I live in NC. I also knew that the chance of flood was beyond minimal, as the flood plain puts me in a 1 in 5000 year area, even with the river being right there. Elevation above it, how it would flood the other side and flow. It would really have to be Biblical for flood to get anywhere near my townhome. Pollution? It’s the city, but, it is a bit less being on the edge.

Eby claimed that the push to delist the First Street ratings from Zillow is linked to a challenging real estate environment, with a lack of affordable housing and repeated climate-driven disasters that are causing insurers to raise premiums or even flee states such as California.

Or, because most do not care. I doubt most get too deep on the Zillow listing to get to the climate scam info.